Straight from the order
Hours, materials, travel — it's all in the order. The invoice picks it up automatically. You check, you send, you're done.
Invoices · Billing
Hours in.
Invoice out.
Hours from time tracking, materials from the order, travel from the site. The invoice almost writes itself — as an e-invoice in ZUGFeRD format if your customer needs it. Included in every plan. Also in Starter from 29 €/month.
E-invoice standard
Audit-proof archived
DATEV export
Reminders automatic
Three pillars
What you worked.
What you get.
Hours, materials, travel — everything's already in the order. The invoice just needs to go out.
01
WHAT
Invoice from the order.
What you worked, what you installed, how far you drove — it's all already in the order. The invoice picks it up automatically. What you still type: practically nothing.
02
WHY
Audit-proof and e-invoice-ready.
ZUGFeRD and XRechnung built in — if your big client requires it. GoBD-archived in case the tax audit shows up. Both at no extra cost, both from day one.
03
HOW
One click. Out it goes.
Review the invoice, check, send. Goes to the customer by email and into the DATEV export folder in parallel. What you no longer do: copy, print, envelope, stamp, mailbox.
How it looks
Order becomes invoice.
Without typing.
The Mayer order is signed off. Watch the invoice write itself from the order — hours, materials, travel, VAT block, all in.
Aufträge / A-047 Familie Mayer
In ArbeitAbgeschlossen
Familie Mayer
Bad-Sanierung · München · Marek Wojcik
Arbeitszeit
94 h 30 min · aus Zeiterfassung
Material
28 Posten · 5.059,00 €
Anfahrt
2 Pauschalen · München
übernimmt
Live
Auftrag abgeschlossen — geht in Rechnung über · automatisch
Rechnung baut sich auf — alle Quellen drin · ohne Tippen
Rechnung versendet — ZUGFeRD an Familie Mayer · gerade eben
Rechnungen / 2026-047 (Entwurf)
Rechnung 2026-047
an Familie Mayer · 28. April 2026 · Zahlbar in 14 Tagen
Anfahrt2 × Pauschale München
50,00 €
Arbeitszeit Sanitär94,5 Std × 78,00 €/h · aus Zeiterfassung
7.371,00 €
Material28 Posten laut Liste
5.059,00 €
Zwischensumme netto12.480,00 €
MwSt 19 %2.371,20 €
Gesamt14.851,20 €
ZUGFeRD eingebettetGoBD-archiviert
Drei Quellen, eine Rechnung — Auftragsdaten, Stunden und Material fließen automatisch ein.
What's inside
Seven things that
make billing routine.
Writing an invoice used to mean: find the invoice number, total the hours, list the materials, calculate VAT, open Word. Today: open the order, check, send.
E-invoice standard
ZUGFeRD and XRechnung built in. When the big client demands an e-invoice, you just hit send — no format drama, no extra cost.
Audit-proof archived
GoBD-compliant: every invoice with timestamp and audit log, immutable. When the tax audit comes, you have the receipt at the press of a button.
DATEV export
One click, all invoices in DATEV format. The accountant imports it — bookkeeping without copy-paste and PDF ping-pong.
Reminders automated
Deadline passed, money still missing? Reminder, demand 1, demand 2 — all suggested. You decide if it goes out.
Interim & final invoices
For larger orders: set up interim payments, final invoice settles automatically. Just how construction has always needed it.
Included in every plan
Starter, Professional, Business — invoices everywhere. Also in Starter from 29 €/month. No add-on, no limits.
E-invoice mandate
Write today.
Mandatory tomorrow.
The e-invoice mandate comes in three stages — and Meistify has it built in from day one. You don't have to wait, you don't have to switch. The deadlines to keep in mind:
Since 01/01/2025Receive
Receiving — already mandatory.
Every B2B business has had to be able to receive and process ZUGFeRD and XRechnung invoices since 1 January 2025.
From 01/01/2027Send ≥ €800k
Mid-sized businesses send.
If your previous-year turnover is over €800,000, you must send e-invoices. PDF invoices are rejected by B2B customers.
From 01/01/2028Send all B2B
Mandatory for all B2B.
By then at the latest, the send-obligation applies to every B2B business — solo carpenter or 30-person electrician alike. B2C unchanged.
What Meistify brings
ZUGFeRD 2.3XRechnung 3.0KoSIT-validatedGoBD-archived
More depth
See the full e-invoice spec
Wachstumschancengesetz, KoSIT validator, input-tax consequences, FAQ — the pillar page explains it down to the detail.
To the e-invoice pageQuestions
What tradespeople
ask about invoices.
Yes, fully. Every invoice is archived with timestamp, invoice number and audit log — immutable. Corrections are documented in addition to the original invoice. Retention 10 years per §147 AO. At a tax audit, you can show every invoice with its full history at the press of a button.
ZUGFeRD 2.0 (Factur-X EN16931) and XRechnung 3.0 — both KoSIT-validated, both included from day one. You pick the format your customer needs when sending. More on the 2027 e-invoice mandate →
As soon as the order flips to completed, the invoice is ready as a draft — with all data from the order. Hours, materials, travel are already there. You just check it and hit send.
Three tiers: payment reminder (friendly, free), demand 1 (with statutory default interest) and demand 2 (with collection fee per §288 BGB). The system tracks the deadlines, suggests the next tier, you decide if it goes out. When the customer pays, the status flips to paid — no more chasing by phone.
Yes, the construction-standard model is built in. For larger orders you set up interim payments — e.g. 30 % on acceptance, 30 % after the shell is up, 40 % final invoice. The final invoice automatically nets the paid interim amounts and shows only the remainder.
You can export a DATEV file monthly or quarterly — one click, file done. Some accountants want a direct read-access into the system: that works too, with their own read rights, without your accountant seeing the other areas.
After the second demand you can switch to a court payment order — handled by the local court, no lawyer needed. The app gives you the required data as a print-ready form. If the customer still doesn't pay, it becomes an enforcement title — and from there it goes to the bailiff.
What goes together
Invoices work with
the whole tool.
Orders
What feeds the invoice — hours, materials, travel, address. The invoice picks it up with one click.
Read more
Time tracking
Hours on site, hours on the invoice — directly linked, no intermediate step, no spreadsheet.
Read more
Quotes
What came before the order and the invoice — quote becomes order, order becomes invoice. One line.
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Write the invoice.
In 30 seconds.
14 days free. No credit card. Hours in, invoice out, done.
From 29 €/month (billed annually) · Invoices included in Starter · Hosting in Frankfurt